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Library's Builders Now Reading OSHA Citations for Cave-in Hazards

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OSHA has cited four New York contractors, proposing a total of $130,600 in fines, for allegedly violating excavation safety standards during the ongoing construction of a new public library in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. The citations and fines stem from an inspection begun when an OSHA inspector riving by the site saw employees working in an apparently unprotected excavation and opened an inspection on the spot.

"The sizable fines proposed in this case reflect the fact that three of these four contractors knew cave-in protection must be in place before employees entered the excavation yet elected not to provide this vital safeguard," said Diana Cortez, OSHA's area director in Tarrytown, N.Y.

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